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Kingdom Race Theology: God's Answer to Our Racial Crisis

Kingdom Race Theology: God's Answer to Our Racial Crisis

by Tony Evans

The 2020 murder of George Floyd ignited a racial firestorm throughout America, provoking lament and grief over a long history of tragedy. The widespread protests gave way to a heated discussion about terms such as systemic racism, white privilege, and Critical Race Theory, all framed by the slogan “black lives matter.” The beginnings of a help… Read more…

The Everlasting People: G. K. Chesterton and the First Nations

The Everlasting People: G. K. Chesterton and the First Nations

by Matthew J Milliner, David Iglesias, David Hooker and Amy Peeler

First Things Book of the Year award What does the cross of Christ have to do with the thunderbird? How might the life and work of Christian writer G. K. Chesterton shed light on our understanding of North American Indigenous art and history? This unexpected connection forms the basis of these discerning reflect… Read more…

God, Technology, and the Christian Life

God, Technology, and the Christian Life

by Tony Reinke

What Does God Think about Technology? From smartphones to self-driving cars to space travel, new technologies can inspire us. But the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. So how do Christians walk by faith through the innovations of Silicon Valley? And how does God … Read more…

A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church

A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church

by Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography)New forms of worship have transformed the face of the American church over the past fifty years. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including interviews with dozens of important stakeholders and key players, this volume by two worship experts offers the first comprehensive history of C… Read more…

Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality
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Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

by Greg Johnson

Narrated by Tom Parks

Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care—not a cure— for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus.At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graha… Read more…

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction

by James P Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler

Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the de… Read more…

Promise of Christmas: 25 Reflections for Advent

Promise of Christmas: 25 Reflections for Advent

by John Greco

Engage with the Christmas story as you may never have heard it. With insights from the Old and New Testaments, John Greco brings to life the historicity and beauty of the birth of Christ and how it relates to us today. The Promise of Christmas offers twenty-five readings that will prepare your heart for the birth of the King.… Read more…

Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project

Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project

by Amy Cottrill

It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare. But the more obvious acts of physical or sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible often overshadow its subtler forms throughout Scripture and belie the variety of perspectives on violence embedded in biblical … Read more…

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

by Daniel Silliman

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own i… Read more…

In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration

In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration

by William Lane Craig

Was Adam a real historical person? And if so, who was he and when did he live? William Lane Craig sets out to answer these questions through a biblical and scientific investigation. He begins with an inquiry into the genre of Genesis 1–11, determining that it can most plausibly be classified as mytho-history—a narrative with both literary an… Read more…

God and Cancel Culture: Stand Strong Before It's Too Late

God and Cancel Culture: Stand Strong Before It's Too Late

by Stephen E Strang

FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF GOD AND DONALD TRUMP64% of Americans believe cancel culture is a threat to their freedom. This book will help you realize the seriousness of the battle before us and illuminate the present circumstance for the purpose of doing good-to bring hope. It will document what is happening in our country, how believers can respond, and… Read more…

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Cannabis and the Christian: What the Bible Says about Marijuana

Cannabis and the Christian: What the Bible Says about Marijuana

by Todd Miles

What does the Bible say about marijuana? If it doesn’t directly address marijuana, how can Christians know what to make of the legalization of recreational cannabis and the advocacy of medical marijuana?   In the past, Christians could easily answer the question of whether or not it was permissible to use cannabis by deferring to state p… Read more…


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